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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : nickname or metonymic occupational name from mazza ‘club’, ‘mace’, ‘sledge hammer’.
  • Italian : nickname for a destructive individual, from a derivative of Italian (am)mazzare ‘to kill or destroy’ (Latin mactare).

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